LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#0LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 1/3/05 at 2:26pm
AMERICAN PSYCHO.
Bret Easton Ellis' novel which indicts Yuppie-ism during the 1980s made into a uptown slasher movie--and at the end, the whole story may have been just been day-dreamed by the hero?
Geez...
Next! 
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#1re: LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 1/3/05 at 2:28pmThe Harry Potter films. Don't need to get into it, as obviously many people don't agree, but I just got none of the magic that I felt with the books - so to speak.
kissmycookie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/21/04
#2re: LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 1/3/05 at 2:28pm
The Scarlet Letter
Demi Moore + changed ending = 'nuff said....
#3re: LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 1/3/05 at 2:30pmA Home at The End of the World....one of the few times I could NOT separate the two...minor and insignificant changes for no good reason as well as MAJOR changes in plot lines and characters that really left the film too empty....
"Sir K, the Viscount of Uppity-shire...." -- kissmycookie
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#4re: LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 1/3/05 at 2:30pm
Cookie - I screamed out loud in the movie theater when I saw that - made quite a disturbance, actually
#5re: LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 1/3/05 at 2:36pmScary Movie 2. The novel was mind-blowing, simultaneously heartwarming, tearjerking, and humourous. I'm not sure the film lived up.
Hamlet's father.
#6re: LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 1/3/05 at 2:36pmMy favorite book of all time is "A Prayer for Owen Meaney" by John Irving. The film version was so awful that he had his name removed from the project and made them change the title - if anyone saw "Simon Birch" you know what I'm talking about - truly crappy, unfortunately, because the book is amazing.
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"
Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
Dextrous Existence
Featured Actor Joined: 1/2/05
#7re: LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 1/3/05 at 2:44pmThe first and second episodes of Star Wars. I do admit that I'm a geek that way, but I thoroughly enjoyed the novels. But when Lucas' movies came out...well...you know what happened...
#8re: LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 1/3/05 at 2:49pm
I don't loathe the Harry Potter films, but I agree that the books are a gazillion times better.
I am mixed on Series of Unfortunate Events. There are some things that the film "got wrong", but there are some things that the film improved from the books (which while adoring them, they are much flawed). I thought Jim Carrey was great.
#9re: LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 1/3/05 at 2:52pm
Striptease...
Carl Hiaasen writes scathingly brilliant satiric novels about South Florida...the movie had none of his intelligence or humor...it was just plain awful
#10re: LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 1/3/05 at 3:06pmYou may laugh... "Interview with the Vampire"... the movie didn't capture A THING about the book. Totally missed it.
Happy, smile! Sad, frown! Use the corresponding face with the corresponding emotion! - Kate (Meg Ryan), French Kiss
imcuteloveme
Broadway Star Joined: 9/8/04
#11re: LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 1/3/05 at 3:20pmI completely agree with Cookie about The Scarlet Letter. The Movie was a complete joke. Why change the ending? WHY?
"It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes.
This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers."
- Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
#12re: LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 1/3/05 at 3:22pmI had completely forgotten about the "Simon Birch"/"Prayer for Owen Meaney" thing. I totally agree. Amazing book, weird and stupid movie.
There's always room for pathos - and jazz hands.
#13re: LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 1/3/05 at 3:25pm
Dean Koontz's book "Phantom" is a genuinely scary and original novel, mixing in some nice sci-fi ideas into a straight-forward horror pitch.
The movie is utter crap.
(Yes, Affleck was the Bomb in 'Phantoms' but STILL ... )
#14re: LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 1/3/05 at 4:20pmAny and every movie adaptation of "Les Miserables"
"I am special, I am special! Please, God, please, don't let me be normal!" ---Louisa, The Fantasticks
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Intolerant of intolerance.
#15re: LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 1/3/05 at 4:26pmI'm sure there are a lot of people who won't agree with me, but I really disliked "The Hours" as a movie. It just confused me and I don't think they did a very good job of integrating the three plotlines. Plus, Nicole Kidman's fake nose distracted me to no end. I read the book later and I loved it.
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Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#16re: LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 1/3/05 at 4:28pmDoes a television mini-series count? Because what the SciFi channel did to A Wizard of Earthsea and The Tombs of Atuan should be a punishable legal offense. Mutilation of defenseless literature or something like that.
Allie
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/04
#17re: LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 1/3/05 at 4:50pmPractical Magic is one of my favourite books, but the movie was not very good!
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#18re: LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 1/3/05 at 4:55pmI agree with Interview with the Vampire...oh, and Queen of the Damned. The first, being sooooo just messed up, was awful. Neither one of them had the correct character for my beloved Lestat and Louis, then Townsend was another bad Lestat. But! the scene with Alliyah and Stewart in the hot tub was just...hot.
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#19re: LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 1/3/05 at 5:19pmGirl With A Pearl Earring. I can't believe just how wrong they got it and for NO reason. There was NO need to change anything in the book, which is one of the most beautiful I have read in years. Shame.
Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.
#20re: LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 1/3/05 at 5:56pmi admit- a walk to remember! i liked the book and the movie, i just cringed! Also practical magic was an awesome book and don't get me started on how much i hated the movie!
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
#21re: LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 1/3/05 at 6:09pm
popcultureboy, i literally sobbed through "Girl With a Pearl Earring." in the movie theater. it was just SO wrong, even Colin Firth could not redeem it. *sigh*
i refuse to see any movies of fantasy books because i just know they'll ruin them. i also won't look at any pictures or even hear them. i'm such a purist when it comes to fantasy books!
#22re: LIKED The Book / LOATHED The Movie
Posted: 1/3/05 at 6:17pm
The Princess Diaries...because the movie was almost NOTHING like the books, but enough like them to irritate me...
Don't shoot, please.
"And now for something completely different..."
#23re: linked the book / loathed the movie
Posted: 1/3/05 at 6:29pm
all of the tom clancy novel to movie adaptations since the hunt for red october which was a brilliant adaptation that captured the feel of the book magnificently and sported a wonderful ensemble cast.
sleepers. yeah, i know, brad and jason, but still...blech.
jp, glad you managed to keep that clear.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
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...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
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#24re: linked the book / loathed the movie
Posted: 1/3/05 at 6:37pm
The Scarlett Letter (1995) w/ Demi Moore - Oh. My. God. What in the name of all that is holy were they thinking?
Dreamcatcher (2003) - Stephen King's novel is a powerful and frightening science-fiction/action/horror/thriller. The film is crap.
A Home at the End of the World (2004) - I didn't hate it, but they did cut a lot of really important stuff. Colin Farrel and Sissy Spacek gave beautiful performances, though.
White Oleander (2002) - Once again, didn't hate it, but a good portion of crucial plot points were deleted. Outstanding cast. Michelle Pfeiffer should have gotten an Oscar nod. This novel would have worked very well as an HBO miniseries.
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